Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Another story of Adygean folk hero Sosruko, protector of the Narte people. Evil giant has stolen sacred fire from Narte people and now Sosruko has to retrieve it back.

Drama based on the book by Kuprin. A young man from the city falls in love with a girl from the country side. She is not accepted by the village community: people think she is a witch.

Zhamin, a member of a geological expedition and a former criminal, receives a strange letter, after which he quits his job and hurries through the taiga to a nearby station. In the city it is necessary to leave and his main enemy Legostaev, whom Zhamin has long threatened to kill. Zhamin comes to the station alone. He‘s found to have a bloody knife and a large sum of money with him.

About the funny adventures of a snake, a muskrat, a fox and a badger.

For Slava Gorokhov, his next adventure ends with a conditional conviction. By decision of law enforcement agencies, a young man begins to study at a vocational school for re-education. From the first day of being in vocational school, the young man is in the center of attention of students who are not ready to accept a person with a lifestyle that is significantly different from the traditional one for a Soviet citizen. Unexpectedly for many, on the side of Gorokhov is the master Radislav Yershov and Komsomol activist Nadya, in love with Slava. The intrigues unfolding in the school are changing the habitual life of an educational institution, which is becoming the scene of a struggle between two opposing ideologies.

Two stories about the relationships between the peasants and the noblemen in a Lithuanian village during the period of feudalism.

The film tells about one day of a little boy, his most beloved of three hundred and sixty-five days a year - his Birthday. On this holiday, the importance of a gift for a baby can not be overestimated, every kid has a toy that he has long dreamed of. What happens in the heart and soul of the child, if the gift does not match the desire.

A story about a teenagers confrontation with the adult world, in poetic and slightly melancholic mood. Benas is not an adult yet but not a child any more while his town is visited by new interesting people who change his life: events make him grown up.

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.

The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.

TV director Pavel Prishvin is filming with his friend-filmmaker, whose film talks about Stalinism

The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.

An inexperienced reporter, Bob Sketch, is hired by the Strykoroba Corporation to cover Moscow, where his sensational and inaccurate reports lead to a series of misadventures and a reprimand from his boss upon returning to the US.

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.

Essay by political observer Valentin Zorin, impressions of his visit to the United States, the course of the election campaign. New trends in US politics and public sentiment. Interviews in English with US officials on American policy, new trends, and improving relations with the USSR. Political debate. Promises, plans of politicians. Nuclear policy. Disarmament issues. Presidential candidate programs. 1972 year.

Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Rein, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his work than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal struggles makes a choice, but happiness seems to slip even further away.

The militia is looking for a dangerous repeat offender, Sobol, also known as "Artist," who's known to be linked to a fugitive from a penal colony and is preparing to attack a cash conveyor.

A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to the mansion from time to time. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?

Trying to stop the fratricidal bloodshed started by his father - John the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor gave away power and led Russia to turmoil.

The continuation of the animation of The Skilfull Master

Natka, who dreams of becoming a captain, is sent to pioneer work. She takes her first assignment very seriously - and receives a trip to Crimea. In Artek, Natka is asked to replace a sick pioneer leader. The girl agrees. Soon, during the construction of a water pipeline, a dam breaks and a struggle for water begins. Engineer Ganin, who came on vacation with his little son Alka, also joins this fight. In the ruins of the old fortress, Vladik and Tolik find dynamite. To track down their enemies, the guys hide explosives and swear not to reveal their “military secrets”...

Mirsky once left the seaside town, leaving his wife Natalia with their young daughter Svetlana. Natalia married prosecutor Kochan. And the girl, in his person, found a sensitive and responsive father. The family lived happily. When the daughter grew up, Mirsky returned to the city and, having got a job at the ballet school, where Svetlana studied, very soon achieved her respect and love, and at the subsequent trial the right word on the rights to paternity. However, very soon the birth father became convinced that he had nothing to give his daughter, and he allowed him to return to the Kochan family.

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.

Dolphin Tristan is being trained at a naval base. The whole process of this specific training is wittily parodied.

A magical tale about a poor musician who one day stumbled upon a wondrous market stall. An old man there was selling incredible items — a magic mirror, an invisibility cap, a self-setting tablecloth… Among these enchanted objects was a marvelous self-playing flute. The old man gave the poor young musician the flute and the magic mirror, on one condition: they had to be returned in a year. A greedy rich man also took a liking to these magical things and, through deceit and trickery, tried to steal them — even throwing the musician into a dungeon. But what the greedy man didn’t know was that clever, enchanted things only bring happiness to a kind heart — and no wisdom at all to a foolish one.

A heartfelt story about the borderlands of childhood, about a boy who is still a child, but who is touched by an inexplicable, barely discernible feeling of love. Ten-year-old boy Jaanus is in love with Eva, a girl a few years older than him, from whom he wants to buy a puppy. The puppy is like an unattainable dream, like a first love. Aare Tilga's debut film is based on Mart Kivastik's short story of the same name and was Tilga's diploma thesis at the Moscow Cinema Institute, supervised by Eldar Ryazanov.

The action takes place in the family of an industrious and responsible worker, Sudakov. He is smart, practical, knows how to maintain useful connections, and, of course, is confident in the well-being of his family. However, it turns out that not everything is well in the "capercaillie’s nest"…

Sashko and Yulia have been friends since childhood. Sashko grew up in a communal apartment surrounded by post-war poverty. Yulia fell seriously ill during the war. Sashko goes to study in the big city, where he gains his first experiences of independent living in a student dormitory and on a construction site. Later, he meets Yulia again.

The film vividly tells us about the socialist competition between the Georgian and Ukrainian Kolmeurnei, which will grow into a cordial friendship and rise through hard work. In this solemn situation, the marriage of a Georgian young man and a Ukrainian girl, who have liked each other for a long time, is also celebrated.

A touching story about the friendship of guys who help two lonely old people meet after almost half a century of separation.

A film based on Spiridon Vangeli's "The Adventures of Gugutse". It is about a boy Gugutse and his magic hat, which everyone could hide under in the frost.

After WWII life in Soviet Russia through the eyes of a fatherless boy.

On the motives of Saltikov-Shedrin’s fairy tale, the film derides aimless and senseless being.

The film tells the story of three elderly musicians who preserve the charm of old Tbilisi in their modern life. Their children died in the war, and those who were left without descendants were left with only their faithful spouses to take care of them. They exist with memories of the past and set excellent examples of philanthropy to those around them.

It can sometimes seem as though all sorts of machines will be able to solve all problems. But this notion is wrong. Once a polar explorer once again began his research. He never imagined that the elements of nature could be so powerful that no machine would be able to stop them.

Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.

The film is dedicated to the development of culture in Russia. The musical basis of the film is Alexander Gradsky's suite "Nostalgia", written on poems by Vladimir Nabokov.

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.

The Imp will tell two stories about the evil witch Grimella. The first one is about the cursed Princess Irene. And the second one is about her daughter, Catherine, 18 years after the events of the first part.

The first part of the puppet series "Rezgalības" about the adventures of a boy named Pēteris. The first part tells about events taking place during winter — trapping a cat and a mouse in a boot, playing in the snow.

Summer 1943. A group of scouts from an artillery division stumbles upon a 12-year-old boy during a raid behind enemy lines. The scouts are shocked by his appearance - completely wild, dirty, ragged, angry and hungry - a real "wolf cub". The scouts take him with them and study that he has been wandering through the forests for about two years, feeding on what infections, and hiding all the time.

Animation story about a little mouse, who was so tiny, that everybody could offend him.

Four swindlers - Kamol-aka, Gafur, Gafar, and Murodi - set up a marriage bureau at a photo studio. The first grooms appear, and soon a well-known horseman, Saidbek, becomes a client of the bureau. He wants to marry Malika, but she rejects him. The swindlers kidnap the girl.

A hereditary farmer lives with the concerns of his four daughters but loses his spiritual sensitivity upon learning of his daughter's love for the guy.

The film tells the story of a chess coach who establishes a strong women's chess school in Georgia. The film is not biographical, although the prototype of the main character is the famous coach Vakhtang Karseladze.

The film is about relations between different people.

After successfully graduating from school, the young man was a little confused about his choices. While he was studying, he was interested in many professions, but now he went to work at a factory, knowing that he would not lose anything by learning more about life...

A decade after having been reported missing, war veteran Vladimir goes back to his village. Now back home, he finally realizes how much his family and country mean to him.

An animated film based on the fairy tale of the same name by Korney Chukovskiy about how a crocodile swallowed the sun, and it became dark and sad on Earth. But the bear overcame the crocodile and returned the sun to the sky.

Borja and Seva live on the bank of the Dnieper. In summer, during vacations, they help adults by delivering letters. Suddenly they learn that a poacher has appeared in the village. The boys start their own investigation.

A modern fairy tale about funny little cars.

Olezhka arrives at a hunting lodge to visit the elderly gamekeeper Bolotov, a former wartime comrade of his father. He is accompanied by two friends, Vadya and Nadinka. Lightheartedly and somewhat provocatively, Oleh introduces Nadinka as his wife—but Bolotov takes this lie to heart, embracing it with genuine emotion and reading into it a deeper meaning.

The story of the dramatic events in Ukraine in the first days of the Chernobyl tragedy.

Based on writer Wilhelm Hauff's story "The Adventures of Little Muck".

Born in Volzhsky, raised by a strict and domineering grandmother, Ekaterina lost her mother at an early age. Rare encounters with her father, an old, distinguished captain, shaped her into a strong and uncompromising character. War broke out. Without hesitation, Ekaterina went to work in a hospital. There she found her first love, which also brought her first disappointment. After the war, having graduated from university, Ekaterina became an engineer and head of a river port section. She had a complicated relationship with the head of the shipping company. When he was dismissed from his job due to justified complaints, Ekaterina realized that she had lost the person closest to her forever.